Furnace Builder Lands Order for Two Roller Hearth Furnaces
"World class supplier of agricultural ground engaging solutions improves efficiency with Two High-Temperature CAN-ENG Re-Heat Furnace lines. Can-Eng Furnaces International limited (CAN-ENG) has recently commissioned two 8000 lb/hr Roller Hearth Furnace Systems used to Re-heat flat stock for hot...
Salt Bath Nitriding Company Appoints COO’s
Kolene Corporation announced the promotion of Peter L. Shoemaker to Chief Operating Officer for the corporation effective January 1, 2025. Mr. Shoemaker will continue to lead Kolene’s chemical supply chain & order fulfillment departments, as well as the company’s critical replacement parts...
Used Furnace And Equipment Listings
“The Monty” has one of the largest listings for used heat treating equipment in North America. Below you will find our two most recent additions and also a categorized listing by furnace type. If you don’t find what you are looking for let us know and we will find it for you. Have equipment to sell? We are here to find you a buyer, just drop a line to [email protected]
Nitrex HTS, Aurora, IL-Large Investment?
The team at "The Monty Heat Treat News" is hearing a rumor that Nitrex Heat Treat Services is making a multi-million dollar investment in their Aurora, IL, USA facility. What we have been able to gleam is that this will take the form of a new, rather unique furnace system, but beyond that details...
Top Heat Treatment News Items For the Week of January 13th
"The Monty Heat Treat News" constantly monitors our news stories to see which are the most popular amongst our readers. This is based upon reader feedback and social media viewings. For the week starting January 13th, 2025 these were are 3 top stories; Commercial Heat Treater Moving Into New...
Fastener Manufacturer to Bring Heat Treat In-House
Located in Taylor, Michigan USA this is how B&D Cold Headed Products describes themselves; "B&D Thread Rolling, Inc. dba B&D Cold Headed Products, is a U.S. manufacturer of high strength cold-formed bolts, studs, pins and other metal fasteners. Our parts are found in products all around...
CFC Supplier Appoints Head of Sales
Based in Oberasbach, Germany "Graphite Materials GmbH" is a supplier of CFC Fixturing for the heat treatment industry. The company is well known in Europe but less known in North America. Recently the firm appointed Mr. Bastian Schott as Head of Sales to replace Roland Weeske who left the company in...
Nitrex Lands Order From Aluminum Extrusion Supplier
"Enhancing Automotive Aluminum Extrusions with Nitrex System; To meet the automotive industry’s growing demand for high-quality extrusions, a European manufacturer specializing in profiles for the automotive sector has integrated a Nitrex nitriding system into their production process. This addition...
World’s Most Popular Internal Quench Vacuum Furnace?
Furnace builder Ipsen, the "Largest New Furnace Builder" in North America is quite rightly very proud of the fact that their popular "Turbotreater" line of vacuum furnace iss celebrating 40 years of production. This piqued the interest of the team at "The Monty" and prompted us to find out how many...
General Blackening of Ferrous Metals
This Article was provided by Advanced Heat Treat Corp and was written by Dr. Edward Rolinski, aka Doctor Glow. Blackening of ferrous metals has been known for ages. In XIX century America, blackening was used extensively for guns barrels to prevent corrosion and for enhancing their general look,...
The Monty’s 50 Largest North American Commercial Heat Treats 2021 – #13 Rex Heat Treat
Since 1999 “The Monty” has been publishing annually a list of the largest commercial heat treaters in North America based upon annual sales, our 2021 list can be found at https://themonty.com/project/50-largest-north-american-commercial-heat-treats-2021-2/ This year readers will see we became...
North American Captive Heat Treater Preparing to Receive Large Ipsen Vacuum Furnace
Recently we posted some photos of a very substantial vacuum furnace in the initial stages of construction at Ipsen in Rockford, IL, USA. Well perhaps substantial is an understatement, it is in fact a very large unit by anybody’standards. Since we mentioned this unit construction has progressed and...
New Bodycote Facility Means Closing of Rochester, NY Plant
Just over a year ago the world's largest commercial heat treater announced a brand new, state of the art facility in Syracuse, NY, USA (the original announcement is below). "The Monty Heat Treat News" has had the opportunity to see this plant and we can attest to the fact that it is by any standards...
Auto Components Supplier Orders Vacuum Furnace-Compliments Recent New Tempering Furnaces
"A global supplier of auto components recently ordered a new 2 bar vacuum furnace from SECO/WARWICK-this same company recently ordered 6 new tempering furnace from SECO for its machine tool manufacturing facility. The international buyer’s automotive division placed an order for a single chamber...
ECM Reports Exceptionally Strong Furnace Sales-Part II
Yesterday we reported that furnace builder ECM was having a very busy year, today we present some more examples. Each of these systems is on the floor in Grenoble, France and they include 2 Flex systems, one for LPC going to China and a Nitrocarburizing furnace marked for the USA, 2 Nano systems...